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I didn't bother doing a Kansas State review/Texas preview because why bother?
I mean, KU football couldn't score more than 10 points at home to a Kansas State squad that, let's face it, isn't that good.
What was going to happen at Darrell K. Royal Stadium in Austin, where KU had never won, ever?
Certainly not win.
And if they were to somehow win, it certainly was going to be a low-scoring affair. It certainly wasn't going to be some radical overtime shootout where KU led 35-14 at one point. It certainly wasn't going to be a game where the Jayhawks blew a two-touchdown lead in the final five minutes. It certainly wasn't going to be a game where they went for two in overtime and a walk-on who wasn't even considered a receiver that week during practice would catch the game-winning conversion.
Certainly not.
And then, after that, said walk-on certainly wouldn't take advantage of the new NCAA rules allowing players to get paid for endorsements. I mean, that would be absolutely mind-crushingly crazy.
And yet, all of that happened.
I saw the final few minutes of regulation and overtime. I haven't watched the highlights because I still don't believe it's real. I feel like if I do, the bubble will burst, the dam will open, the dream will end and yep, KU really lost to Texas by 40.
Yet everywhere I go, I see they won. In overtime. For the first time ever at Texas, who has now lost 5 in a row for the first time since 1956.
Let the dream continue.
photo courtesy: USA Today sports
Single best comment of this football season came from my old man, who is a devout OU Sooner. When they finally lost last weekend to Baylor after some questionably close calls this season, my dad tells me "what do you expect when they have to come back against Kansas who shouldn't even have a football team". I fell out of my chair.
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